The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-15
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Petroleum has been discovered near
Canton. China.
A Chesterfield (Mich.) man has a
hog IS months old that is the mother OF
zifty-nine pigs.
The young ladies of Summit. Miss.
have organized Tongue Guard
The president does all of the
talking.
The Boliyer (Tenn.) Baltetts will be
given free one year to the man VINO
win explain the causes and effects OF
female beauty.
Joe Young, of the Macoln, ILL.,, |
pottery, recently turned $50 Jugs In
mine hours and two minutes. He has
issued a challenge to any turner OF
$500 to $500.
A man in Ogdensburg. N. J.. con-
verted q footstool into a bank. After
ais death 1910 in gold was found in the
stool. and the hole plugged up with
plaster of paris.
Al silver-haired patron of the Fifth
avenue Hotel, in New York. who has
aivea there for twenty-five years,
claims that in that time his lodging
and meals have cost him SIC, 900.
It is said that an old law is still ex-
fant in Virginia which imposes a fine
of fifty pounds of tobacco on man II
he absents himself from church for one
month without a valid excuse.
In a trial at Philadelphia the other
day the fact was brought out that two
young people, who were neighbors'
had been in the habit of doing their
courting on the roof Of a house near by
Martin Wehunt, of Dahlonega. Ca.
cut open q deer he had killed and dis
covered two curious stones in the
animals stomach. They were found
TO be madstones. and have since been
used with success.
Golden trout are found but in one
place in the world-that is in the
brooks of Mount whitney, up near the
Banks of everlasting snow. They
have golden stripe down each side,
and are the most beautiful fishes that
swim.
Two families occupying the same
house in Wallingford, Conn. fought
long and bitterly until the woman on
the first floor burned feathers and
CAYENNE pepper. Then the woman
on the second floor capitnlatsd and
moved out.
A Boston leather firm sold l 600 feet
of grain leather to manufacturer al
1Ol cents per foot In a few days the
bill was returned to them, with de-
mand for cents deduction for one
oh aa1ro That
allowed it.
A movement is on foot. started by
students at the Elmira college, and
(which 1t is intended TO carry out by sid
of the alumni and others. to raise ESQ.,
600 to endow a professor for DR.
Cowfes. The plan adopted il ingenious
and interesting.
A man has been discovered in Port
land, Me, who has been for many
years = secret agent of the mormon
church. 1t Is said that he has made g
number of converts in Maine and
Massachusetts, and has shown his faith
by his works. having taken seven
wives.
One of the big bridges of the world
will soon be ready for traffic. This is
the iron railroad bridge across the
Missouri few miles below Kansas
City 1t is 1892 feet long, weighs 81
275 tons, is 50 feet above high water,
with towers reaching to height ot
300 feet.
A column of brick masonry, about
20 feet high, is still standing, over
grown with ivy, amid group of fine
old trees, on the james River. 1t is
all that remains of the first church
srected by Englishnlen in america,
and was erected by the jamestown
colony in 1910.
Major Black. efSumter, Ga, ownet
Q gaiuea hen fhat4k Wanted to set. He
nesfw was broken up several times, ant
at length. with everyappearanceo of de
lection, she walked to the well, and
with arasping CRY, plunged head first
out she was dead.
CofeA recently broke down hel
ancient barriers so far as to send al
envoy 20 Japan, but the government
was sospeor that it could not supper,
him. and, soon coming to the end ol
his resources, he had to ask aid of the
JapanesegoEernnaent to avoid being
put in desperate straits.
A small boy of Smithville, Ca, who
had often expressed a desire te
catch q buzzard, was missed, and
after he-4had been away all day
Was found in field lying on the
ground and playing dead" He said
that he was trying to make the
buzzards think that he wasreally dead
30 that they would come near enough
Tor him tocatch them.
e. h Prince of Morgan county,
Georgia, while cutting in the woods
on his place, came across pine stuml
the tree Of which had been cut down In
pS7l. The stump was perfectly green
get no new growth was started. The
top OF the stump looked as if the tree
had been cut down some time, but
when cut into it was perfectly green.
The stump is one inch greater in
diameter now than when cut down in
1871.
The native merchants OF China are
said to be finveterate swindlers. A
f0reign dealer at Tientsini recently
contracted for LOCO bales of .camelis
wool, guaranteed free OF dirt and
sand. When the first installment had
passed through the cleaning machine S5
per cent OF its gross weight was found
80 be sand and gravel, and,,s besides
that. The wool had been wet to make
the dift stick in and also to make it
heavier. 6
Munnmies beaten up into a powder
and mixed with a little goil made for
fhe artists of Egypt richer tones of
brown than any other substance.
Modern perfumers used to prepare the
perfumes and spices found inside Of
mumqlies in snch-a way as to make
ladiesssdote on It." Paper manufact-
urers have used the wrappings of
mummies to make coarse paper, and
the cloth and rags have been used as
elothing
JohnaIrwinsof Cuba lost his voice
Hast summer and regained it in q